First homicide victim in Sioux Falls in 2022 identified

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The first homicide victim of the year in South Dakota’s largest city has been identified as a local man. Police and family members say 36-year-old Tunis Sando Lomax was the victim who was fatally shot this weekend in Sioux Falls. Police spokesman Sam Clemens said Monday (Aug. 22, 2022) no arrests have been made in Lomax’s death. Clemens said officers responded to a report of a gunshot about 2 a.m. Saturday on the east side of the city. Police found Lomax at the scene suffering from what they believed to be a single gunshot wound. He was taken to the hospital where he later died.